Routine hospital tool found to predict poor outcomes after liver transplantation
Credit: Cedars-Sinai LOS ANGELES (Aug. 10, 2017) — A routinely used hospital tool can predict which liver transplant recipients are more likely to do poorly...
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Troubling inconsistency found in dialysis testing methods — with patient care implications
Credit: Josh Barney | University of Virginia Health System A blood test used to determine the health and well-being of dialysis patients produces worryingly inconsistent...
Coagulation Sciences selects Enercon as its contract manufacturer
Credit: MDI Biological Laboratory BAR HARBOR, MAINE — Coagulation Sciences LLC, a medical device startup that is being incubated at the MDI Biological Laboratory in...
Expanding geographic sharing of donor kidneys would increase…
Credit: University of Kansas News Service LAWRENCE — Broadening the geographic range that a number of deceased-donor kidneys would be available would increase the number...
Does socioeconomic status affect women’s decisions not to continue breastfeeding?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, June 26, 2017–A new study has shown that among women who intended to breastfeed, nearly 25%...
$8.9M collaborative grant to understand how dangerous virus ‘hides’ to attack another…
Credit: Jason Ryder The University of Arizona's Felicia Goodrum, PhD, and some of the nation's most prominent human cytomegalovirus researchers have been awarded a five-year,...
Tracking effects of a food preservative on the gut microbiome
Credit: UMass Amherst AMHERST, Mass. – Antimicrobial compounds added to preserve food during storage are believed to be benign and non-toxic to the consumer, but...
Early diagnostic imaging to prevent kidney disease
Credit: Osaka University Osaka University researchers, in collaboration with several Japanese companies, translate neuroimaging tools to study renal fibrosis in rat kidney. The technique is...
Aggressive form of leukemia linked to defective ‘protein factory’
Credit: KU Leuven – Rob Stevens 20 to 40 percent of the patients with multiple myeloma – a type of leukaemia – have a defect...
TSRI-invented compound ozanimod shows positive results in late-stage clinical trial for relapsing multiple sclerosis
Credit: The Scripps Research Institute February 21, 2017 – Results from a new Phase 3 study conducted by the Celgene Corporation demonstrate that ozanimod, a...
$3.6 million NIH grant to UA-led international research consortium seeks precision medicine…
Credit: UAHS BioCommunications University of Arizona researchers are launching an international consortium to determine if better regulation of a protein found in lung cells might...
‘Buying time’ for natural killer cells could enhance cancer immunity
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research A team of researchers from Australia and France have uncovered new insights into how to prolong...
Brain’s ‘GPS’ does a lot more than just navigate
Credit: Illustration by Julia Kuhl The part of the brain that creates mental maps of one's environment plays a much broader role in memory and...
CDC scientists review methods to prevent bites and suppress ticks that transmit Lyme disease
Dr. Lars Eisen and Marc Dolan of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have reviewed decades of scientific literature on the effectiveness of...
Study shows how genes affect immunity in response to pathogens
A study that is first in its kind and published in Nature Medicine today has looked at how far genetic factors control the immune cell...
